The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the IaaS offering by Google. You can sign up at https://console.cloud.google.com/freetrial. Just as with the Azure cloud, you will recognize many core features, although differently named:
- You can manage virtual instances using the Google Compute Engine. As usual, each instance is created from an image, a selected machine type, and an SSH public key. Instead of Security Groups, you have Firewall Rules, and autoscaling groups are called Managed Instance Groups.
- Relational databases are provided by the Cloud SQL service. GCP supports both MySQL and PostgreSQL instances.
- For NoSQL databases, you can use the Cloud Datastore service.
- The Cloud Pub/Sub service offers the possibility to implement ...